What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
My main thought on living a very long life is that it might be bad luck to talk about it. You don’t want to jinx yourself. (I sound like my superstitious Italian grandmother.)
Also, it occurs to me that I’ve interacted with two different types of professionals who are very focused on making sure that their particular areas of concern last as long as you do: financial advisors and dentists. Your money and your teeth. You don’t want to outlive either one. Financial advisors will actually refer to “the risk of longevity” when discussing your retirement with you. And the entire point of preventive dentistry is to avoid decay. Dentists go to great lengths to preserve each and every one of your natural teeth for as long as possible.
So I’ve always tried to do what dentists and financial planners tell me to do. Because if I do happen to live a very long life, I don’t want to run out of money or lose my teeth.
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The other day I heard someone say that financial advisors are the only ones that view living longer as a risk. Pretty funny, but true. And I’m with you… in the past 5 years I’ve been given my teeth more thought. Gotta take care of them, no matter how much I hate going to the dentist!
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Yeah, force yourself to go to the dentist. And floss!
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I and my family have been seeing the same dentist twice a year for at least 45 years now. He is ready to retire and will not certainly not run out of money! LOL😁
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Good job! And true, you probably paid for a lot of his golf fees. My husband likes to say “another BMW payment for Dr. P” every time he goes to the dentist. 😉
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He does play golf, but I think we put his kids through university! Thank goodness for dental insurance! hahaha
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